The Quest Begins
#4 of Dawn of the New Era
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The young dragons were all taken back by what Terrador had just said. Spyro and Cynder's reaction was like "are you serious", while Sparks was like "WHAT!?", and Malefor, was, more than anything, hopeful. There are still dragons alive? He thought i didn't kill all of them?
"Terrador, are you serious?" asked Cynder "I thought all the other dragons had been killed." Cyril turned to her and said "Well, this was the plan: make you and Malefor think this, and keep the dragons safe, along with the other eggs."
The young dragons were taken back again "Other eggs!?" exclaimed Malefor, Voolter nooded "Yes, you see, for the danger of attacking the eggs in the year of the dragon, only part of them was kept in the temple, the other eggs were carried with the dragons to the villages, so they could be safe."
So Malefor had not destroyed all the eggs! He had not condemned the dragons to extinction. This must have been the better new he received in the day. And it made him feel better inside. "And where are them?" He asked. Terrador sighed and said "We don't know."
The young dragons stared back at them, Sparx was the first to speak "Are you serious?" Cyril then said "We thought that maybe, if one of the guardians was captured, it would be better that we didn't knew about the villages, so we could not give this information if we were interrogated."
"Oh." was Spyro's only answer, and Voolter spoke "We only know that exist tem villages inhabited by dragons that ran away to protect themselves and the eggs. And some of them are protected by other guardians." The young dragons were taken back by this last part. "Other guardians?" asked Spyro
"Yes, young one." Said Terrador "There are one guardian for each element in the dragon temple, Fire, Electricity, Ice and Earth. But there is more elements, Water, Wind, Shadows, and Light."
"I never knew that!" Exclaimed Spyro, "The other guardians teach in different temples. I never knew the location of the other, but I thought it had been taken too, and the guardians I thought had died."
"Well, another part of the plan that worked " Said Voolter "We wanted you too think that the other guardians had vanished so you would not search for them and would let them alone to protect the villages."
"Oh." was Malefor's only answer. Then Spyro said "And there is other elements for be mastered by the purple dragon?"
"Yes, young dragon." Said Terrador "The Purple dragon must dominate every element, even the ones of the other temple. You were suppose to learn them in due time, to be in all chances of defeating Malefor. We were waiting for you to be ready. but appeared many setbacks that prevented it."
Spyro only nodded knowing that they must be talking about the fact he got three years stuck inside one crystal, and then Cynder said "But, if the villages are hidden and not even you know its location, how do we find them?"
The group went to thinking at this, the guardians had actually no way of helping them find the villages. Then Sparx said "You don't expect for we search then around the lands, do you? It will take like, forever!"
"Well." said Malefor hesitantly "Maybe there is a way.". All the eyes turned to him. He kept silence for a few moments them said "Do you have a map of the lands?" Voolter nodded, he went away and came back with a big map, that ha meters. He deposited it in front of Malefor.
"Well, what do you expect to receive from this map?" asked Spyro. Malefor turned to him and said "Well, I learned a lot of things in the centuries I lived. Betwen them ways to find things. As long as they're not hidden by powerful magic."
"Oh really?" asked Sparx "Them why did you not found those villages before, big guy?" Malefor looked at him "Because I didn't knew they existed." he then turned to the map "But Now I know, and I know what to search for."
The guardians shared a look. Well, if Malefor could find the villages now, it could be a good thing. Well, but surelly, that was stil the possibility of Prowlus being right, and that it could be a trick, should they let Malefor try and find the villages location, or they should prevent him from doing so. Terrador gave one look to Spyro and Cynder, they looked back, and like guessing his thought, they both nodded, saying that they trusted Malefor. The great earth dragon sighed and turned to the former Dark Master "Go ahead, young dragon."
Malefor nodded, and turned to face the map. The others watched curiously to see what he was going to do. The young purple dragon closed his eyes and took some deep breaths, then he started to mumble what seemed some senseless words. It seemed more enchanting then any other thing, then he took one deep breath and breathed fire over the map, igniting it.
"Whoa!" said Sparx, actually all the others were startled by this. The fire spreaded quickly over the map, but Malefor kept enchanting strange words in front of it. He then said "This is one strong location spell. The only parts of the map that are of your interest, are the parts were what we search are in."
Then the map suddenly stop burning, all the fire dying down at once, revealing at all eight points in the map that were perfect circles that were not burned down. The first one was an area covered in moutain. The second was a forest, another was an ice and snow field, another was what seemed a whole area around a vulcano, there was another part that too was close to a mountain, and there was a desert land. Other was an elevated field, and the last was a formation that seemed a canyon.
The others dragon watched in interest to the parts of the map that weren't burned down. Malefor then said "Those places that didn't burned, the villages are somewhere inside them."
"Okay, now we can go." said Sparx happily "And the evil dragon stay here where you can watch him." Cynder shoot him a death glare, but soon Terrador spoke. "Malefor will go with you. It may be useful to have him around. And he seems to be of good help."
The dragons nodded, but Sparx seemed to don't like having the former lider of all evil things around. "But be careful, those places are well guarded by the guardians and powerful dragons. Even with the apparent defeat of the evil they will still being ready to fight, specially if they see Cynder and Malefor, even being young ones." Cynder and Malefor looked down, Terrador cleared his throat and continued. "And we have to be careful about Baltazar. I heard many stories of the horrible things he did, and if half of them are truth, so we can just expect for him to not to know about the secret dragon villages."
No one noticed the small shadow figure hiding behind a column, its red eyes shining. Then it stepped in a shadow and disappeared from sight.
"THE SECRET WHAT!?" Screamed Balthazar as he received the news from his spy minion, that stayed behind to see if there was any problem. Balthazar thought it was useless, due to having been little threat let behind. Well, he was proved wrong.
"This was what I read them say, Master. And they're going to them to contact the dragons to help in the war." Balthazar considered this. This wasn't in his plans, he expected the other guardians, along with any other dragon to have been killed. But if there was still a good number of dragons alive, then it would be harder to win the world, specially if between the survivors there were... He snapped "I worked far to hard to let everything be ruined like this!"
"Do you want us to find the villages sir." Balthazar was about to answer, but then a thought crossed his mind, and he smiled "There is no need for this." The minion looked at him "Sir?" Balthazar turned to him smiling "Why waste my resources to find those villages if the young dragons are going straight to each of them? They will find the villages to me each by time, and then I'll destroy each of them with all their dragons. As Malefor should have done." He then laughed and turned back to his minion. "Keep an eye for those dragons, be sure that they don't make a single move without you knowing."
The shadow creature bowed and leaved the room, leaving Balthazar alone with his thoughts.
Back in Warfang, the dragons were ready to leave, all of them wearing bags with somethings, like a few crystals and a smaller version of the map, with the right places all marked. The guardians were there to send them the last warnings.
"Be careful in your way." said Voolter "The dragons are still ready to fight, as we already said."
"And the places were they are equally dangerous to visitors." warned Cyril
"Once you find them, you must tell the dragons of the circumstances and send them straight to Warfang. So we can be in group and ready for any attack." said finally Terrador. "Now go, and good luck, young dragons."
The young dragons bowed to them, and then take flight, ready to search for the villages and the dragons. Unknowing that they were being watched.
"So, were do we go now?" asked Sparx. Malefor picked up the map in his bag and gave it a look. "Well, the closest place from here are the mountains of Maltar. It is a great closing of mountains, and is one of the places were you can easily get lost."
"Sounds really inviting." said Cynder. And then Spyro said "Well, its your next stopping. We can arrive there in one day or two. Now lets go." Then they kept flying, aiming in the next stop, without ever suspecting that red, cruel eyes were watching their very moves.
AN: Thanks for reading. It is good to have support. Sorry for this chapter being short, but I ran out of ideas. Youre most then welcome to make suggestions and advises, and sending OCs.
Yeah, I'd like to have OC's of my readers. Here is a guide to post your characters.
_ Name: The name of your dragon_
_ Age: You dragon is a hatchling, an child, an adolescent, an adult, young adult, or elder?_
_ Gender: Is your dragon male or female?_
_ appearance: What does your dragon look like? Follow the patters of colour of the dragons of legend of Spyro. Look elements, for more details._
_ Personality: How is your dragon mind and soul? How he/she thinks? What believes in?_
_ Element: What is your dragon element? Chose just one, only the purple dragon can hold more than one element. You can choose the elements of the guardians show in the games, or one of the ones used in here: Water, Wind, Light or Shadows. Dragons of Water hold black and deep shades of blue, darker than the Ice dragons. Wind dragons have gray colors as basic layout. Shadows dragons have black layout. And finally, dragons of Light hold white and golden background._
_ Bio: A little of your dragon story, of how it lived before and during the war, and if any significant happening in his/her life._